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Originally Posted by tony286
I arguing nothing , my point is this isnt new and it isnt going to change. As long as there are nukes in the world.
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i guess i misread that you wrote this is not whistle blowing.
but from the article you cited, things did in fact change
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Why? The Washington Post had recently suggested that after the serial outrages of the Vietnam, the My Lai, the secret bombing of Cambodia, Watergate, the energy crisis and all the rest, the public was suffering ?a kind of deadening of moral nerve-ends, a near inability to be surprised, let alone disturbed.?
And yet, for all that, Congress acted. In 1978 it passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a bipartisan law (one of its sponsors was Strom Thurmond) banning surveillance without a court order that involved acquiring ?the contents of any communication to which a United States person is a party.? Though it was pretty soft soap, for all that: judicial authorization was only required within seventy-two hours after the surveillance began.
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